Category Archives: Abstraction

Charles Sanders Peirce, George Spencer Brown, and Me • 14

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: C.S. Peirce, Spencer Brown, and Me • 11 Re: Laws of Form • Dirk Baecker DB: Watzlawick’s request for a pragmatic calculus of communication up to now was never appropriately answered.  W. Barnett Pearce and Vernon E. Cronen (Communication, … Continue reading →

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Charles Sanders Peirce, George Spencer Brown, and Me • 13

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Laws of Form • Dirk Baecker DB: I guess you know Fernando Zalamea’s work on Peirce.  He thinks that all of GSB’s important ideas are already in Peirce’s Existential Graphs. I think he may be right, but then there … Continue reading →

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Charles Sanders Peirce, George Spencer Brown, and Me • 12

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Laws of Form • Dirk Baecker DB: Thanks to James Bowery for inviting me to this group.  Maybe it is not exactly what I am looking for, since I am interested in a sociological reading of LoF.  Which means … Continue reading →

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Charles Sanders Peirce, George Spencer Brown, and Me • 11

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

There’s a new Laws of Form group in town.  James Bowery et al. have just revived the earlier group on a new platform and everything looks pretty handy so far.  There’s an honest-to-goodness 60s vibe about it for me since … Continue reading →

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Precursors Of Category Theory • Discussion 3

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Take your place on The Great Mandala As it moves through your brief moment of time. Win or lose now you must choose now And if you lose you’re only losing your life. Peter Yarrow Re: Ontolog Forum • Alex … Continue reading →

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Precursors Of Category Theory • Discussion 2

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Alex Shkotin AS: Looking at “categories, or types” in Precursors Of Category Theory • Hilbert and Ackermann what do you think of to say “Precursors Of Type Theory” as Category Theory is a math discipline?   … Continue reading →

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Survey of Precursors Of Category Theory • 2

Posted on September 20, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

A few years ago I began a sketch on the “Precursors of Category Theory”, tracing the continuities of the category concept from Aristotle, to Kant and Peirce, through Hilbert and Ackermann, to contemporary mathematical practice.  A Survey of resources on … Continue reading →

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Precursors Of Category Theory • Discussion 1

Posted on September 13, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Medieval Logic • EB • JA • JA • EB • JA • EB • JA • JA • EB JA:  In the logic of Aristotle categories are adjuncts to reasoning designed to resolve ambiguities and thus … Continue reading →

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Mathematical Method • Discussion 7

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Alex Shkotin Dear Alex, You raised the following point: AS: One important usage of a sign is as an element of a language, especially a formal one, i.e. with a formal grammar. For context you cited … Continue reading →

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Mathematical Method • Discussion 6

Posted on August 13, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Alex Shkotin Dear Alex, Thanks for the very apt segue from Jon Barwise — Modern mathematics might be described as the science of abstract objects, be they real numbers, functions, surfaces, algebraic structures or whatever.  Mathematical … Continue reading →

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